Hastings, Justine S. - 2018
We use a novel retail panel with detailed transaction records to study the effect of the Supplemental Nutrition … marginal propensity to consume SNAP-eligible food (MPCF) out of SNAP benefits is 0.5 to 0.6. The MPCF out of cash is much … benefits are below their food spending. Using a semiparametric framework, we reject the hypothesis that households respect the …